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Halloween 2020
This year we were invited to spend Halloween with the Weckerlys. I think most people were wondering what was best as far as celebrating Halloween in the middle of a pandemic. Since Hurdsfield is such a small community and they have a very low number of positive or active cases there, we felt it was probably a safer option than Fargo anyhow. Plus, with wind gusts up to 60 mph, it seemed like 'rona germs didn't stand a chance. (Kidding.)
We came through Carrington on Friday for dinner at my parents' house and then continued on to Weckerlys' where they were watching the first 'Harry Potter' movie. So, Brynn was excited to get in on part of that.
The next day the kids hung out and Chad helped with trick-or-treat training. We were joking with the kids with a pretend trick-or-treating dry run.
Marsha didn't seem overly impressed with her costume, but she looked really cute.
Auntie had a fun game of Halloween bingo planned.
(Thank you to Tessa for some of these pictures!)
Elise, Brynn and Ben were busy working on stop additional Halloween decorations.
Oliver helped make mummy dogs which turned out really neat...and yummy.
We had quite the spooky spread from ghost bananas and pumpkin oranges to punch with floating phalanges ice cubes.
Grandpa and Grandma Dietz came along for trick-or-treating too.
The horrendous wind was a real bummer, but the kids didn't seem to mind too much.
Mom and Dad and I took Oliver and Clara in my vehicle behind the older kids. These two little ones had a tough time keeping up with the older ones, but they didn't seem too deterred. It was so hilarious watching them together. Half of the time poor Oliver's helmet was sideways, so I don't know how well he could see.
We made it back to the house after about a half an hour. The kids rifled through the treats, ate some favorites, did a little trading and then we went into Fessenden so we could visit Grandma Darlene.
Oliver and Clara were having such a fun time together, Oliver decided to tag along with us up to Grandma's.
Dad tried to give Grandma a fright.
Here's a little Halloween video montage.
We had a fun time! Thanks for hosting us, Weckerlys! And thank you to all who gave the girls cards, money and goodies this Halloween.
Right before Christmas break was done, Brynn and I went downtown to Nichole's for some graduation planning. Making lefse! Clara finished up her time in robotics league with a presentation of the robots and mission that she and her partner/friend, Elizabeth, had been working on. Here's a video compilation of two of the missions they presented. It was so cool. I especially liked the one that picked up the rocks. Some of Brynn's recent drawings. Bedtime snuggles. 💜 I was messaging with Clara's teacher to see if he could let her know that Brynn would pick her up from school one of the very cold days last week. He wrote me back to confirm Clara received the message. I asked Clara when she got home if she wrote that last sentence. Haha. Clara had her first swim meet on Saturday, which was a 'home meet,' hosted by Clara's team, the Red Dragons at Moorhead High School. She was disgruntled about getting up at 7:00 am on a Saturday morning, but each team had specifi...
I was in full fall mode watching 'When Harry Met Sally" in my turkey leg slippers the other night. Dana and I went out to eat at Granite City on Friday night and I think I found my signature cocktail for Christmas. It's called Snow on the Beach and it was so pretty and tasted really good! Saturday morning Clara had her piano recital and did a great job! Thank you to sister Brynn and the grandparents for coming. After lunch with everyone (family, not the other piano students), she was off to the next thing which was a Scouting event at NDSU. She had to miss the morning session because of the recital, but in the afternoon they made a tool box. It turned out great. That night we had the XaBeat (the exercise dance class I go to) crew with spouses over for a little XaFriendsgiving. It was super fun. Dana mixing up old fashioneds. There was no shortage of food - it was an amazing spread. Dana smoked a couple turkey breasts that turned out really well and the stuffing sausage bi...
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